Another quick update
OK OK, it's been 9 days since I last posted. Chris gave me grief tonight for not posting recently, so I thought I'd shoot a quick one up here. I've been here in Dallas since last Friday. We've been waiting on electricity the whole time. Evidently it was determined that the "provisional" setup that was going to be installed shouldn't be installed, but they were supposed to have completed the work to get the permanent connection in today. I'll find out by Monday if it really happened or not.
I'm heading back down soon, this time for a while. Fortunately Stacy will come down a couple of weeks after I get there and we'll look for a place to live. Then as soon as all the paperwork is complete we'll get Stacy and Emily headed down. We're all pretty excited about getting down there together, as the long times apart are difficult for us all.
We continue to feel that this is where God is wanting us to be. There are days that things seem frustrating, but He continues to remind us that He has a plan and a path for us. We're only supposed to have faith in Him, and follow that path one step at a time. There are times when He sheds light on the path a couple of steps in front of us, and there are times when we only have enough light to see the step we are on. No matter what He always provides for us though. Matt 6:25-39 has held a great deal of meaning for Stacy and me for quite a while because in it He reminds us that He will always care for our needs.
Matthew 6:25-39 (New International Version)
Do Not Worry
25 "Therefore
I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink;
or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than
food, and the body more important than clothes?
26 Look
at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in
barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more
valuable than they?
27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
28 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If
that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and
tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O
you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Amen and blessings,
Robba